I got interested in this anime based on an animated action sequence gif I had seen posted on twitter. It looked well-animated so I decided to check it out.
While I loved how the anime was able to capture the feel of life in a small Japanese coastal town, let's get one thing straight: I struggled to stay invested and interested in the series. I'd get so bored and fidgety that I'd start surfing twitter or play a video game instead of staying focused on the anime at hand. To me, that's a bad sign that the anime is bad or at least isn't my thing. It happens...
The problem for me is that the rules of how things work in the universe of this anime get a bit...overdone. Intermittently, there's little bits of exposition devoted to how these mechanics work and this requires focus at times to understand (certainly I kind of lacked the discipline), and so things will happen where I'm like "wait, what...?!" and we're talking fiddly details like character copying guns but then hiding them etc etc The big picture of the anime is (mostly) easy to understand but how things transpire exactly can sometimes get lost bc you weren't following along on earlier episodes. What the anime needed was a pause menu where you could look up a faq on the different rules vs backtracking the anime episodes to figure it out.
The characters themselves get lost in all of this bs (they try to reason it out in a very exposition-heavy, Japanese way much like the first Judgement video game), and to me, this can give the series a plodding pace.
Anyhow, I can't really give this a strong recommendation when there is more enjoyable things to watch.
While I loved how the anime was able to capture the feel of life in a small Japanese coastal town, let's get one thing straight: I struggled to stay invested and interested in the series. I'd get so bored and fidgety that I'd start surfing twitter or play a video game instead of staying focused on the anime at hand. To me, that's a bad sign that the anime is bad or at least isn't my thing. It happens...
The problem for me is that the rules of how things work in the universe of this anime get a bit...overdone. Intermittently, there's little bits of exposition devoted to how these mechanics work and this requires focus at times to understand (certainly I kind of lacked the discipline), and so things will happen where I'm like "wait, what...?!" and we're talking fiddly details like character copying guns but then hiding them etc etc The big picture of the anime is (mostly) easy to understand but how things transpire exactly can sometimes get lost bc you weren't following along on earlier episodes. What the anime needed was a pause menu where you could look up a faq on the different rules vs backtracking the anime episodes to figure it out.
The characters themselves get lost in all of this bs (they try to reason it out in a very exposition-heavy, Japanese way much like the first Judgement video game), and to me, this can give the series a plodding pace.
Anyhow, I can't really give this a strong recommendation when there is more enjoyable things to watch.
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